If your phone doesn't want to boot up again after the update, it gets stuck in a black screen, follow this tutorial where we root the Galaxy SII with Odin and put an official Samsung Android 4 ICS on it.
If you are afraid your friends, kids or any other person you are borrowing your iPad to, might delete an app by mistake or even intentionally, you can enable restrictions on individual all of the apps.
iOS6 comes with a great new feature you can use to password lock an app or only a part of the app so you can hand over your iPhone to other people without worrying they will do or find something you don't want.